At this time, the sun had come out, and there were some casualties among the men who blocked the stairs of the city wall and the Manchu cavalry, but the Qing army was as fragile as ever, and in this case, it didn't kill a few Ma Dalei's soldiers, but those bows and arrows were annoying, and many people were full of feather arrows, but as long as they didn't hurt the vital ones, they were fine, and they could even continue to fight.

It's all good!

Ma Dalei sighed secretly, and then shouted loudly, his subordinates fought and retreated, the Qing army horse team was pressing step by step, but the soldiers on the city tower were not pressing, and there was no desperate posture.

The people retreated to the vicinity of the city gate, and Mardale gave the order, and then everyone quickly ran along the city wall. The Qing army was about to chase and kill, when someone suddenly noticed a slight white smoke coming out of the hole in the city gate, and quickly understood the situation.

Someone shouted, "The thief has fired!" ”

In an instant, the Qing army was in chaos, huddled together, and at the same time, a huge fire burst out of the city gate, followed by the sound of piercing eardrums.

The thick smoke and dust obscured everyone, and the city gate hole was blown into a trumpet shape, and a large number of broken bricks were sprayed out from it, breaking the Qing army crowded in front of the city gate hole with people and horses, and a few of them rolled on the ground and wailed.

The smoke and dust slowly fell, barely able to see, and at the foot of the city wall, soldiers in armor slowly climbed up against the wall, this was Ma Dalei's men, and the impact of the explosion made them hiding at the foot of the nearby city wall, unexpectedly shocked and staggered.

Mardalei shouted loudly, but he couldn't quite hear what he was saying, and his ears were buzzing.

Pulling and kicking, leading a few people straight to the city gate, with him leading the way, the soldiers slowly understood what they were going to do.

The broken bricks in the city gate hole are all gone, as if blown by the wind, and as if burned by fire, everywhere is scorched black, the hole itself has been blown up and deformed, the walls at both ends of the hole have been lifted open a layer, and the outermost even exposed loess, which was dug up by the explosion and formed two bells. At the top of the city gate hole, a one-foot-wide crack opened, and there was not ash falling inside, and even city bricks were falling.

Ma Dalei was even worried about whether it would collapse, but he didn't have time to worry, and lowering the drawbridge was the most important thing.

But it's still too early to put down the drawbridge. After passing through the city gate, they actually entered the urn city. A semi-circular city with a city gate, if it is an army coming in from the outside, when it arrives, it will be called archery on the city wall by the enemy troops in front and behind, like catching turtles in an urn, so it is called an urn city.

So the Urn City is the most dangerous place.

But I don't know if the Qing army in the city is stupid, or frightened, that is, none of them show their heads, the Qing army on the arrow tower of the urn city may be pressed by the cannons outside the city, but the Qing army on the main gate tower did not show up, it is really lucky. Ma Dalei hadn't thought about the explosion of the city gate just now, and the impact on the city tower had made most of the soldiers in the city not regain consciousness, one by one they were dizzy, they didn't know what was going on at this time, how could they take the right action.

Seizing this rare opportunity, Ma Dalei led his troops to rush to the gate of the urn city, there are two gates of the urn city, one on the front, one on the side, and in some places there is only a city gate on the side, to prevent the enemy from smashing the gate directly from the drawbridge with a battering ram, so it is placed on the side, so that even if the other party occupies the moat, the battering ram cannot be turned away.

Leaving 300 people to guard the city gate, the others all followed Ma Dalei and went straight to the gate of the urn city, which was also blocked as expected, but fortunately, the soldiers who were responsible for blocking the cavalry and the city tower soldiers just now still had hundreds of gunpowder packs.

With the experience they had just had, they quickly dug out some gaps deep into the hole, filled them with gunpowder, and set them on fire.

This time they ran far away, and sure enough, there was a violent explosion and a cloud of smoke.

When the smoke and dust settled, he immediately rushed to the Weng City Gate to see if it exploded.

It was very successful, the damage to the urn city was smaller than the city gate hole just now, but the masonry and the city gate were also blown away, and they quickly drilled in, and the situation outside was not clear, because the smoke and ash had not yet dispersed, but they didn't know when the cannon fire stopped, and they could faintly hear the sound.

Thinking that it was because the explosion shook their ears a little indistinctly, they rushed out quickly, thinking about cutting the sling of the hanging door, but found that the hanging door actually fell by itself, and straddled both sides of the moat steadily, and then they realized that what they heard was not tinnitus, because the cavalry of the handsome battalion had rushed to their eyes.

It turned out that when they bombed the city, they accidentally blew up the iron lock of the gate, and if it weren't for that, it would have taken some effort to let them cut it. However, this did not matter, because it was later found that the Qing army reacted much slower than they expected, and there was no organization for an effective defense.

When it was too late, Ma Dalei saw his cavalry brothers, and hurriedly moved out of the way, and the cavalry entered the city, drew his sabers and galloped past him one by one.

Yongding Gate has been taken!

Zhou Lang personally saw this result, because Zhou Lang has been outside Yongding Gate, and the heavy artillery couldn't be transferred yesterday, but it's no problem for people to come, Zhou Lang came with Shuai Ying, and he has been staring at it from the beginning of the operation to the present.

After the cavalry entered the city, they quickly took control of the tower and the walls on both sides, and then the infantry marched in.

Before noon, the entire southern wall was taken down.

At this time, the entire outer city was in chaos, the common people fled one after another, and the Qing soldiers ran faster than the common people.

In the afternoon, there was a fierce battle for half a day, and the important positions such as the official yamen and bridges of the entire outer city were controlled in the hands of the Great Zhou army. Next, you can attack the inner city in the north from the outer city and the outside of the city at the same time.

Zhou Lang even considered continuing to sneak attack from the water pass, the three city gates on the city wall separated from the inner city in the north of the outer city, each city gate has a water gate, and there are even two water gates on both sides of the Zhengyang Gate in the middle of the city wall. The reason why so many water gates were opened on the south wall of the inner city is because outside the south wall is not a wild land, but an outer city, which is the safest, but there is also a moat that can enter and exit the water, so most of the water gates are placed here.

The south city wall is not more fragile than the outer city wall, because the outer city was added later, so the inner city south wall was originally a regular city wall, and later after the outer city was added, it formed the inner and outer city structure in the shape of the "day" of today's North Small South University, and the south wall of the inner city has become the "horizontal" in the middle of the word "day". Having said that, even if the inner and outer cities of this "day" structure are built together, with the status of the capital, they will not cut corners, and they must be how strong and how to come, and they will not consider the cost.

Therefore, at that time, it was unreasonable for the officers to actively support the attack on the outer city from Longxugou, but the attack on the outer city was not meaningless as Zhou Lang thought, but of great significance.

Because in the evening of the same day, the horses outside the city sent information confirming that Emperor Jiaqing had escaped!

After being besieged for several months, the reinforcements were all defeated, and the city wall was bombed and broken, the outer city was captured and finally crushed Jiaqing's psychological defense line, he fled, and the people of the Aixin Jueluo family really inherited the escape gene!